![]() ![]() Lerner said that the tragedy of women’s history is the sheer waste of intellectual capital for millenia. I remember almost nothing about the event except a single line by the speaker, which I can only approximate here. ![]() I realized that women were doing cool (and important) things while all that other business was going on.) Being forced to take history courses in college was the bright side of this failure, because it was in those classes that I learned that history is more than the dates of battles, treaties, and founding documents - all activities of men. (The course itself was a revelation to me, and a requirement because I didn’t score a 5 on my high school AP History exam. I read only short sections of the book assigned in my women’s studies class. My Humanities Moment occurred during my Junior year in college, when I attended an evening session with Gerda Lerner, the author of The Creation of Feminist Consciousness and one of the founders of the academic field called women’s history. ![]()
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